A company whose president is “best friends” with Chelsea Clinton received more than $11 million in contracts over the last decade from a highly secretive Department of Defense think tank, but to date, the group lacks official federal approval to handle classified materials, according to sensitive documents TheDCNF was allowed to review.

Jacqueline Newmyer, the president of a company called the Long Term Strategy Group, has over the last 10 years received numerous Defense Department contracts from a secretive think tank called Office of Net Assessment.

The Office of Net Assessment is so sensitive, the specialized think tank is housed in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and reports directly to the secretary.

To date, the Long Term Strategy Group has received $11.2 million in contracts, according to USAspending,gov, a government database of federal contracts.

But after winning a decade of contracts from the Office of Net Assessment, the federal agency is only now in the process of granting clearance to the company. Long Term Strategy Group never operated a secure room on their premises to handle classified materials, according to the Defense Security Service, a federal agency that approves secure rooms inside private sector firms. Long Term Strategy Group operates offices in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass.

“The Long Term Strategy Group is currently in process for a facility clearance with the Defense Security Service,” the agency informed TheDCNF in an email.

Newmyer declined to address her company’s lack of facilities to handle classified material. “With regard to your questions about the status of our facilities, those are best directed to the US government, which has authority over such matters,” she wrote in an email to TheDCNF.

She also declined to say whether her company is footing the bill for the new secure facility, or if the taxpayers are footing the bill through the Office of Net Assessment.

Adam Lovinger, a whistleblower and 12-year Office of Net Assessment (ONA) veteran, has repeatedly warned ONA’s leadership they faced risks by relying on outside contractors as well as the problem of cronyism and a growing “revolving door” policy, where ONA employees would leave the defense think tank and join private contractors to do the same work.

Others outside ONA have drawn similar conclusions about the office’s reliance on outside contractors. USA Today complained in August 2013 that the same set of contractors never seem to leave ONA: “While Democratic and Republican administrations come and go, ONA and its team of outside advisers remains the same. Contract records show the office relies on studies from outside contractors.”

Clinton and Newmyer first met each other while attending Sidwell Friends School, an exclusive private Quaker school in the nation’s capital. They were in each other’s weddings, and in 2011 Chelsea referred to Newmyer as her “best friend.”

In numerous emails, Chelsea’s mom, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, actively promoted Newmyer and attempted to assist her in securing Defense Department contracts.

Secretary Clinton put Newmyer in contact with Michèle Flournoy, then-President Barack Obama’s undersecretary of defense, according to the emails from Clinton’s private email server released by the Department of State under a lawsuit filed by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Hillary followed up in a July 19, 2009 email, asking Newmyer, “By the way, did the DOD contract work out?”

ONA was supposed to work on complicated future warfare scenarios when it was originally set up in the 1970s.

The think tank’s first director, Andrew Marshall, was adored by a coterie of ONA staff. He was called “Yoda,” after the “Star Wars” series, adding to his mystique. Marshall lasted in the DOD post for 42 years and retired at the age of 93 in 2015.

In 2016, Lovinger sent a series of memos to James H. Baker, ONA’s new director, raising many problems Baker “inherited” from Marshall, including the use of contractors. ONA has a reputation for issuing “‘sweet-heart contracts’ to a privileged few,” Lovinger told Baker in a Sept. 30, 2016 email chain.

ONA’s leadership, led by Baker, did not take kindly to Lovinger’s warnings and allegedly retaliated against the staffer, according to Sean Bigley, a federal security clearance attorney who also represents him.

The suspension came after Lovinger had been detailed to the National Security Council. He was removed from the National Security Council after losing his security clearance, and now languishes inside a Defense Department satellite office doing busy work.

In a Sept. 13, 2017 letter to DOD officials, Bigley charged: “A review of the ‘case file’ in this matter illuminates a picture of intentional whistleblower retaliation against Mr. Lovinger; personal and political vendettas against Lovinger by Baker …”

Although Lovinger has since been exonerated of all the accusations, he still faces the possibility of a revocation of his clearance. His case is currently pending before Defense Department officials.

In a recent move, Baker decided to “reclassify” Lovinger’s ONA position to one that now requires new skills he doesn’t possess.

Bigley complained about this new act of alleged retaliation in a Sept. 21 letter to the DOD acting general counsel: “The practical effect of Baker’s plan, if executed, is that Mr. Lovinger will become a surplus employee and will be terminated; he does not possess the skill set applicable to the proposed reclassification.”

Lovinger is the only staff member Baker has “reclassified,” according to Bigley.

One of Lovinger’s main complaints about ONA was that many of the reports contractors wrote imparted very little new information to the think tank. “Over the years ONA’s analytic staff has expressed how they learn very little from many (if not most) of our often very thin and superficial contractor reports,” he wrote in the Sept. 30, 2016 email.

Some of Long Term Strategy Group’s reports bear out Lovinger’s critique. A September 2010 Long Term Strategy Group report, titled “Trends in Elite American Attitudes Toward War,” came to the astounding conclusion that, “American intellectuals have for the last century held considerably more cosmopolitan views than their non-intellectual counterparts.”

Lovinger also suggested in a March 3, 2017 memo to the record that contractor studies should be peer-reviewed: “There has never been an external review of these contractors’ research products,” he said, adding, “It is now clear that over several decades the office transferred millions of dollars to inexperienced and unqualified contractors.”

Others outside of ONA have been even more critical of the think tank. Book critic Carlos Lozada criticized the think tank as “an opaque bureaucratic outfit,” in a Washington Post review of a book about Marshall, ONA’s founder.

University of Notre Dame Political Science Chairman Michael C. Desch said “a systematic scrutiny of [ONA’s] work is long overdue” in the December 2014 issue of The National Interest. He recommended that ONA, “like so many now-superfluous parochial schools, should close its doors.”

On the liberal front, Middlebury Institute’s director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program, Jeffrey Lewis, wrote a scathing attack on ONA in the Oct. 24, 2014 edition of Foreign Policy Magazine. “Marshall funded a fair number of crackpots,” he charged.

Lewis cited two studies on Iraq “written by a crackpot who thinks Saddam planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and 9/11, and a study on ‘Islamic Warfare’ by the guy who fabricated both a Ph.D. and an interview with Barack Obama.”

Lovinger has also been critical of the revolving door at ONA, where previous government staffers went to work for ONA contractors.

Phillip Pournelle, who was ONA’s military adviser from November 2011 to December 2016, now works at Long Term Strategy Group as its “director for gaming and analysis,” according to his LinkedIn page.

Steve Rosen, also a long-time ONA consultant, was originally Newmyer’s professor at Harvard. But Newmyer and Rosen hit it off, and they “co-taught” a Harvard class together in 2006.

Newmyer and Rosen are top officers in a nonprofit they created together called the American Academy for Strategic Education, which is “dedicated to educating a rising generation of strategic thinkers,” according to its website.

The organization has raised $894,000 since it began operations in 2013, according to their IRS 990 filing. The academy paid Newmyer and Rosen $45,000 each in 2015.

Since serving as president of Long Term Strategy Group, Newmyer has participated in many prestigious bodies on national security, and she was enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

But her Ph.D. had little to do with today’s international conflicts or in contemporary military strategy. Her dissertation was on “a comparison of seminal works on strategy and statecraft from ancient China, the medieval Middle East, and early modern Europe,” according to a Harvard profile of her.

Adam Lovinger did not consent to an interview for this article. The Office of Net Assessment did not reply to a DCNF inquiry.

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Think it is a shock that Hillary took bribes?
Anyone who is not ignorant of reality knows that.
Of course, such actions are commonplace with US presidents, congress persons, Department heads, Generals, admirals.

chris

exactly,which is why the corrupt govt needs to go.

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Ratcraft

Who cares, it’s proven nothing will be done about it. They are all in this big shit sandwich together. Trump tries but he has to know it’s futile. That’s why he beats up on Sessions as well. They all have their hand out and they all fill their pockets.

chris

exactly the problem. the corruption is blatant and obvious yet nothing is done. why? because the people allow the also corrupt to stand in judgement on their buddies. throw out the entire corrupt system,arrest them all. let the people judge them.

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uranium 1 was delivered by Mueller to Russia for clinton

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why are the American people renting the land under post offices from diane frankenstein

junktex

How anti-Semitic.lol

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The Pentagon govt employee labor unions budget is around $700 billion..
…..
The Pentagon’s
own auditors found they cannot account for 25 percent of their daily
expenditures.That means Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the
Pentagon loses around $86 million tax dollars an hour. The Pentagon
loses more of your tax dollar money before lunch each day than
Americans will see in their entire life times
.

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John McCain,.. “I know ISIS intimately, I’ve met them and I talk to them all the time.”.

FBI Comey
Has ‘Repeatedly & Improperly Protected Clinton & Her Top People From Consequences of Criminal Behavior….
DOJ
’DHS
FBI
CIA
NSA
TSA
taxpayer funded public employee labor unions, all working against the American taxpayer

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open borders for illegals and massive debt on Americans to pay for ghost soldiers.
.
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ghost employee costs.
Obama Sent $300 Million taxpayer dollars to ghost Afghan Soldiers Who Do NOT Exist!
.

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Obama’s pentagon military industrial complex holdovers

misplaced $6 trillion tax dollars.

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.
Obama’s message to illegals,,……
. you can’t legally vote for Hilary , but..no one will punish you if you do
.

Lionel Sawyer law firm files bankruptcy to avoid having to repay
Chinese solar clients $3.37 million purchase price for Bundy land .https://www.reviewjournal.c……
Feb
4, 2015 – The historic Lionel Sawyer & Collins law firm, which went
out of business at the beginning of the year, filed for Chapter 7
bankruptcy liquidation .

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Nevada senators richard bryan & harry reid and hilary sold
mineral rich land they did not own to a Chinese billionaire. then used
years and years of taxpayer dollars and taxpayer funded govt employees
and judges to cover it all up.

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Benghazi Contractors:..

Hillary’s State Department Told Us Not To Cooperate With Congressional Investigators

Hilary’s govt employee labor union…state dept says75 years …..to do job…
that is alot of taxpayer funded GOVT EMPLOYEE overtime costs.
.
.
we need 75 years..
Obama Holdovers cause Slow Release of Clinton Emails,
Officials from the State and Justice Departments argue they need 75 years as inability to
process and release the Hillary Clinton emails as ordered under a
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, according to a report.
A U.S. official familiar with the case told Circa “there are still
govt employee labor union holdovers” within the State and Justice Departments who don’t want to
see the emails released,

“Maybe Mr. Stevens should have contacted me if he wanted to live,
if he wanted security.
He should have thought about that.”
— Hillary Clinton .

chris

stevens was gun running for killary. why else did he travel by ship. he knew the deal beforehand. the problem is,that killary and company either tried to double cross their al qaeda buddies or planned to eliminate stevens.

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judicial watch law suits ..
are always magically sent to a Clinton appointed judge who dismisses every case

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feinstein used dc police union to cover up her automatic weapons deals..

Clinton’s HSBC & Barclays join in project to build new profits for banks.

Aug
31, 2017 – Called Utility Settlement Coin (USC), the banks new cashless
society invention project is designed to help prepare the way for banks
to make it easier for Americans to digitally pay their utility bills
.. for a small fee of course

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US Published National Debt..$19,846,205,419,111

The Truth….$101,800,291,866,096

Your Share of odious debt : $313,000

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With or without Romney, D.C. a surprising Mormon stronghold –
May
12, 2012 – With or without Romney, D.C. a surprising Mormon stronghold
… Even many Latter-day Saints joke about Washington’s “Mormon mafia” –
referring to … Much of Washington’s Mormon professional network is
still anchored by powerful union lobbyists , big pharma and banking
institutions

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Clinton sold uranium to Russia acquired from Oregon land grabs

years before a stand off.
without owning it…retired Nevada senator Richard Bryan and Harry Reid sold Bundy’s ranch to
the Chinese solar clients of Richard Bryan’s Lionel sawyer Collins law
firm. but Reid and Bryan (BLM GOONS) could not deliver the bundy
land to the Chinese who bought bundy’s land from bryan’s law firm for $3.4 million .

so Bryan filed bankruptcy & dissolved Lionel Sawyer Collins to hide
the land sale scam from the American people so Reid and Bryan had to
have Obama appoint a hand picked & groomedcorrupt
judge Gloria Navarro and use new harry reid replacement – NV senator
Catherine Cortez Mastocorrupt judges are taxpayer funded govt. employee
labor union members
…………………………..
corruption
– done with help of harry reid senate replacement Catherine cortez masto
Masto … is the taxpayer funded corrupt useful idiot with husband-inside the FBI to cover up the land grab..

Phil_Ossifer

Where the hell did this troll come from?

doodaa

And who woulda’ thunk?

chris

and americans cannot see the corruption in govt? undue influence,favoritism etc. the contracts must be rescinded and all money returned to the taxpayers. clinton and her gang and family,immediately go to jail.

raven6

No surprise, this is how the Communist / leftist / Socialist machine funds their friends. Wonder if she is too young for bill. Silly me.